"Dick, I'm awfully hungry."

"So am I," I nodded.

"It would be nice to have tea here under the trees, wouldn't it?"

"It would be positively idyllic!" I said.

"Then if you will please find that ladder - "

"If you will promise to forgive the Imp - "

"Certainly not!" she retorted.

"So be it!" I sighed, and sat down again. As I did so she launched
her book at me.

"Beast!" she exclaimed.

"Which means that you are ready to descend?" I inquired, rising and
depositing the maltreated volume side by side with my pipe on a
rustic table near-by; "very good. Place your right foot in - "

"Oh, all right," she said quite pettishly, and next moment I had
her in my arms.

"Dick! put me down-at once!"

"One moment, Lisbeth; that boy is a growing boy - "